From Kyrgyzstan and to Japan, the COVID pandemic provided fertile ground for corruption from the top of health ministries to average citizens scamming the system.
Ho Chi Minh City on Friday lifted a stay-at-home order that had kept its nine million residents indoors for three months and devastated business in Vietnam's economic hub.
Vietnam's commercial hub Ho Chi Minh City will start relaxing its coronavirus curbs from later on Thursday, officials said, allowing more business and social activities after four months of measures aimed at arresting a spiralling death rate.
People in Ho Chi Minh city are only allowed to leave home for necessary activities and public gatherings of more than 10 people are banned for the next two weeks, the government announced.
Vietnam s Health Minister says the new variant has spread to 30 of Vietnam s 63 municipalities and provinces, and could be responsible for a recent surge in confirmed cases.